NEWS> ACLU Attorney Fights Digital Surveillance
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- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 07:55:31 -0600
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From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 07:11:45 -0500 (EST)
ACLU Attorney Fights Digital Surveillance
By ANICK JESDANUN AP Internet Writer
<http://news.findlaw.com/ap/ht/1700/3-31-2003/
20030331060004_04.html>
NEW YORK (AP) - Barry Steinhardt is paid to be paranoid.
The American Civil Liberties Union's cyberchief holds up his Handspring
Treo, a combination organizer, phone and e-mail gadget, as he describes
the many ways his government might spy on him.
Snoops could try to tap into the calendar to see his meeting schedule.
They could ask his service provider for phone and e-mail records. If
Steinhardt were to upgrade to a device with global-positioning
capabilities, investigators might even track his whereabouts.
Though the government isn't necessarily doing any of this, Steinhardt
fears it's just a matter of time.
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, trying to beat back a technology-propelled
surveillance society has been Steinhardt's No. 1 mission. He believes he
will probably lose - but not without trying to at least win greater court
oversight or other limits.
"We are moving at a warp speed," Steinhardt said at ACLU's national
headquarters, a lower Manhattan office with a Statue of Liberty view. "The
surveillance monster is growing, but the legal chains to these monsters
are weakened even when we should be strengthening them."
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